Prototypes.

[ProgRocker]

What a great thread.

 

Fiat 2500 circa 1973

 

Flip me sideways, that is alright!!! Certainly can see some influence for the FSO Polonaise there.

[Betaphile]

Alfas:

 

1943 Tipo 163 Berlinetta da Corsa

 

1943 6C 2000 'Gazzella'

 

1948 6C 3000 Prototipo

 

Tipo 103

 

1961 Giulia TZ Spider Prototipo

 

1962 GTZ

 

1962 2600 Prototipo

 

1963 Giulia Spider Prototipo

 

1964 Condor 1300 GT

 

1966 Scarabeo Berlinetta

 

1967-8 Alfetta Berlina Prototipo (Bertone)

 

1968 1750 Berlinetta Sperimentale

 

1968 1750 Berlinetta Sperimentale (Giugiaro)

 

GTV prototype, 1970

 

Tipo 119 (Bertone)

 

1976 Alfasud Van

 

Alfasud Spider, to take on X1/9

 

1976 Alfetta two-door

 

1976 Alfetta GT prototype (Bertone)

 

Another Bertone effort, two-door Giu from 1977:

 

Giu estate, Moretti, also 1977:

 

Alfa 6 proto:

 

148

 

149

 

33 mockups, bottom one is by Giugiaro:

 

GTV Series 3:

 

Arna 1.5Ti pickup

 

RZ Speedster

 

Bangle 145

 

155 hatchback

 

155 Sport Wagon

 

147 steer-by-wire

[richardthestag]

That bottom Skoda screams Citroen BX for some reason.

Here is another little gem, can you guess what it became?

 

Max Headroom's choice of shite?

[richardthestag]

Great thread this

 

here are a couple of Micholetti's own design which became Project Stag. Mefinks Triumph should have cracked a couple of Peronis, gone on an italian cruise and then been a lot closer to the Italian design studio output.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Triumph got involved and asked for this....

 

 

 

Everyone agreed "nah!" and that was a sublime prototype destined for the crusher.

[AnthonyG]

Given Alfa's experience with the Sillyspeed, it's probably just as well the steer by wire idea was dropped. The Lancia Lybra prototype looks quite Pug 406ish from the A pillar back - Pininfarina input?.

 

There were loads of interesting designs in the executive car arena circa 2000, the Thesis, Vel Satis, Pug 607, Alfa 166, Rover 75, Jaguar S type, Volvo S80 - all looked very different from each other and from the model they replaced.

 

Now that sector is wall to wall German brands all designed to look as identical to the last generation model as possible so as not to scare the existing customer base. I guess BMW deserve credit for having the guts to do the Bangle thing, and Mercs have been getting a bit more interesting recently.

 

But Audi basically haven't changed their style since the '96 A8 and '97 A6. So eternally boring, apparently the Chinese are to blame as they are the biggest market for them and are very, very conservative.

[Betaphile]

The Lancia Lybra prototype looks quite Pug 406ish from the A pillar back - Pininfarina input?

Not directly - but the guy responsible, Enrico Fumia, spent 15 years at Pininfarina before moving to Lancia in 1991 (mockups are from '92).

 

Also, I forgot this - Quattroruote had an interesting story last year which revealed that the Uno was originally designed to be a Lancia-badged replacement for the A112. A management reshuffle later, it was decided it could actually suffice, virtually unchanged inside and out, as Fiat's new 127. Here's a scan from the article:

 

[Betaphile]

Next up, some Porker protos...

 

902, a lengthened, proper 2+2, 911

 

924 Targa

 

Megashite - stillborn Chinese-market C88

 

928 Estate

 

914 'Kombi'

 

Stillborn 989 - a million billion times better than the Panamera

[eddyramrod]

That 928 estate is making me drool!

[hairnet]

 

why do i think 406 lol

 

why is that 911 making me think ds and panhard.....????

[flat4alfa]

The Alfasud Van wasn't a prototype

 

17 of these 'Furgone' were built and used as dealer hacks

 

One's been for sale in Germany, restored, for months

 

Which is nice.